Gorgon Gnomon

This multi-screens video installation is composed of a centrally hanged projection screen. A hypnotic figure appears on it, taken into a circular light movement that evokes the sun revolution around an impossible 360° sundial. The vertigo feeling is increased by the rotation of the spatialized audio tracks on the four corners of the space. On two flat screens tv vertically hanged on a wall, another swing of lights and shadows is operating. The origins of these images are a group of antique funeral vases filmed in an Athenian museum with a new moving light setting. The strangely geometric object filmed from different point of views on the central screen is a vase’s cover that has the form of the Medusa head, in the antic archaic representation mode of the gorgon. With this new project realised with museum’s collections, antiquities are transfigured into the register of fantastic with a simple in-situ re-setting that reveal their cosmic and atemporal dimensions.